, but not knowing that I should have had it ready, I was supposed to be able to install it later. I went to Debian packages, couldn't find it, found it is non-free, finally found a page in Debian packages that held the correct package to install. That package is

. Since it is a .deb, how do I install it to the Debian OS? It shows up in Downloads, along with another .deb package, but I don't know how to find a readme page to say how it is to be installed. TIA, jppattison

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# apt install firmware-iwlwifiReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DonePackage firmware-iwlwifi is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another source

E: Package 'firmware-iwlwifi' has no installation candidate

And this is what I got when I tried to install the package listed on the Debian page:

I have some code that I've already used to add a right-click menu action to Thunar and Dolphin to use apt to install any number of debs at a time instead of the laborious one-at-a-time-in-the-correct-order-only process needed by gdebi; this comes in handy when I backport and test programs that Debian cuts into loads of packages. I'm sure that the code can also be used to create right-click actions for other file managers, but would need some help with that if anyone wants that. I've also put the KDE action into a deb for MX Linux.

But "dpkg -i" works just fine for base firmware packages like iwlwifi. But it can then cause headaches if you try the same thing with a metapackage like firmware-linux-nonfree.